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A Diamond Bar woman had quite the Halloween scare after losing her wedding ring while handing out candy on Thursday night. Patti Leon-Encalde said she was heartbroken to learn Friday that her beloved wedding ring was missing. After a thorough search of her home and workplace, she realized it must have been lost while trick-or-treaters were visiting her home. “All I can think is that they were handing out candy and the candy slipped out of their hands,” Encalde said. “It’s one of a kind and incredibly special to me.” This custom ring was designed by Don Encarade, her husband…

Ahead of Election Day, Los Angeles County officials on Saturday opened hundreds of additional voting centers where voters can cast early votes in person.According to a post on the X account, the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk has opened 526 additional centers. This is in addition to the 122 centers already open across the county where people can vote in person and drop off their ballots for the Nov. 5 election.Officials said the center was open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and most wait times were less than 15 minutes.The county’s mobile voting centers will also be operating throughout…

Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump 47% to 44% in Iowa, a shocking new poll finds just three days before Election Day. The results of the Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa poll came as a complete surprise to political observers, as no serious analyst predicted that the Democratic candidate would defeat Trump in the state. “I don’t think anyone can say they saw this coming,” said J. Ann Selzer of Selzer & Company, which conducted the poll. Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump among likely voters in Iowa by a margin of 47% to 44%, according to a shocking new poll released Saturday…

Outfielder Juan Soto became a free agent this offseason. Will the Dodgers, who just played him in the World Series, play for him? (Wally Scully/Los Angeles Times) As it stands, the most obvious holes on next year’s roster are in the outfield and starting rotation. Even if the Dodgers put Betts in right field (he initially moved him to the infield before moving him back to the position later this year), the club is without a left fielder since Teoscar Hernandez became a free agent. They could play Edman at center, but only if they have another option at shortstop.…

Two Los Angeles police officers were injured and a suspect was taken into custody Friday night after a gunfight erupted while investigating a possible robbery in South Los Angeles, authorities said.According to police, the incident occurred around 9 p.m. Friday when two officers from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Southeast Division responded to a report of a robbery in the 9200 block of Central Avenue. At some point during the ensuing encounter, officers exchanged gunfire with the armed suspect, who fled the scene, police said. It was not immediately clear whether the suspect was hit.A radio call for help prompted…

An additional 526 voting centers will open across Los Angeles County on Saturday as the presidential election approaches. More than 100 early voting locations have already opened across the county on Oct. 26. These locations are not just for voting in person. Residents can submit their mail-in ballots at any vote center. A man who was voting early Saturday at the Los Angeles County Registrar’s Office in Norwalk told KTLA that the “very serious” political climate would bring about the change. “I think it’s a very serious situation… things are going to change, for better or for worse,” Willis said.…

The Republican lieutenant governor of Texas is refuting false claims shared on social media by presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign that voting machines in Tarrant County will change voters’ choices. Lara Trump, Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law and co-chair of the Republican National Committee, recently said that voters in Tarrant County are reporting that voting machines are flipping votes from Trump to Kamala Harris. posted on social media. “I just spoke with Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick about voting in Tarrant County, Texas. They investigated it and the error was corrected in the voting machines,” she said. I wrote it on the day.…

Los Angeles County voters will have the final say Tuesday on a proposed charter amendment that would overhaul the county’s governance structure. Measure G would accomplish this, in part, by expanding the size of the Board of Supervisors and making county CEO an elected position. If approved by voters, Measure G would expand the Board of Supervisors from five to nine members after the 2030 census, and the county CEO would be elected by 2028. The measure also creates the positions of county legislative analyst and budget director. management. The proposal also includes establishing an ethics committee and compliance officer…

Shasta County Supervisor Mary Rickert, a devoted Republican who owns a ranch and speaks proudly about gun ownership, is an unlikely progressive icon.But for some in this Northern California county, where the 72-year-old devout Catholic and grandmother has been confounded by conspiracy theories about voter fraud and other extremist ideologies for the past three years, that’s exactly what the 72-year-old devout Catholic and grandmother has become. It has become such an existence. Rickert remains a staunch conservative. But she has also emerged as the Board of Supervisors’ often-lone voice against the far-right insurgency roiling the county. Shasta County District 3…

In the final weeks before the Nov. 5 election, prospective voters in Los Angeles County are being told that a measure that would double the county’s one-quarter homeless sales tax is closing in on the majority needed to pass. This was revealed in a new opinion poll. The poll, conducted by the University of California, Berkeley Institute of Government and co-sponsored by the Times, found that half of those surveyed said they would vote for Measure A or had already voted. This was a 1 percentage point increase from the previous IGS survey in September and a 3 percentage point…